Klezmer presents a lively and detailed overview of the folk musical tradition as practiced in Philadelphia's twentieth-century Jewish community. Through interviews, archival research, and recordings, Hankus Netsky constructs an ethnographic portrait of Philadelphia's Jewish musicians, the environment they worked in, and the repertoire they performed at local Jewish lifestyle and communal celebrations. Netsky defines what klezmer music is, how it helped define Jewish immigrant culture in Philadelphia, and how its current revival has changed klezmer's meaning historically. Klezmer also addresses the place of musicians and celebratory music in Jewish society, the nature of klezmer culture, the tensions between sacred and secular in Jewish music, and the development of Philadelphia's distinctive Russian Sher medley, a unique and masterfully crafted composition. Including a significant amount of musical transcriptions, Klezmer chronicles this special musical genre from its heyday in the immigrant era, through the mid-century period of its decline through its revitalization from the 1980s to today.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S.
ISBN-13
9781439909034
eBay Product ID (ePID)
214455308
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Social Organisations
Author
Hankus Netsky
Publication Name
Klezmer: Music and Community in Twentieth-Century Jewish Philadelphia
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
198 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Hankus Netsky
Topic
Local History, Music
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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